SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 6Amendments relating to parenthood in cases involving assisted reproduction
Part 3Enactments relating only to Northern Ireland
Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/2203 (N.I. 22))
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1
Article 15 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (adoption by one person) is amended as follows.
2
In paragraph (3)(a), for the words from “or, by virtue of” to “other parent” substitute “
or, by virtue of the provisions specified in paragraph (3A), there is no other parent
”
.
3
After paragraph (3) insert—
3A
The provisions referred to in paragraph (3)(a) are—
a
section 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (disregarding subsections (5A) to (5I) of that section), or
b
sections 34 to 47 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (disregarding sections 39, 40 and 46 of that Act).